Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

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Essays: First Series (1841)

1. History
2. Self-Reliance
3. Compensation
4. Spiritual_Laws
5. Love
6. Friendship
7. Prudence
8. Heroism
9. The_Over-Soul
10. Circles
11. Intellect
12. Art

Essays: Second Series (1844)

1. The Poet
2. Experience
3. Character
4. Manners
5. Gifts
6. Nature
7. Politics
8. Nominalist and Realist

Nature (1836)

1. Nature__complete
   
    
2. Introduction
3. Chapter I. Nature
4. Chapter II. Commodity
5. Chapter III. Beauty
6. Chapter IV. Language
7. Chapter V. Discipline
8. Chapter VI. Idealism
9. Chapter VII. Spirit
10. Prospects
    
     
11. Nature__Notes1

English Traits (1856)

1. Chapter I First Visit to England
2. Chapter II Voyage to England
3. Chapter III Land
4. Chapter IV Race
5. Chapter V Ability
6. Chapter VI Manners
7. Chapter VII Truth
8. Chapter VIII Character
9. Chapter IX Cockayne
10. Chapter X Wealth
11. Chapter XI Aristocracy
12. Chapter XII Universities
13. Chapter XIII Religion
14. Chapter XIV Literature
15. Chapter XV The Times
16. Chapter XVI Stonehenge
17. Chapter XVII Personal
18. Chapter XVIII Result
19. Chapter XIX Speech at Manchester 

Representative Men (1850)

1. Uses_of_Great_Men
2. Plato
3. Swedenborg
4. Montaigne
5. Shakespeare
6. Napoleon
7. Goethe

The Conduct of Life (1860)

1. Fate
2. Power
3. Wealth
4. Culture
5. Behavior
6. Worship
7. Considerations
8. Beauty
9. Illusions

From Nature; Addresses and Lectures

Addresses

1. The American Scholar
2. Divinity School Address
3. Literary Ethics
4. The Method of Nature
5. The Young American

Lectures

1. Man the Reformer
2. Introductory Lecture on the Times
3. The Conservative
4. The Transcendentalist

The Dial (1840)

1. The Editor to the Reader
2. Thoughts on Modern Literature
3. New Poetry
4. Two Years Before the Mast

The Dial (1841)

1. Michael Angelo, Considered as a Philosophic Poet
2. Essays and Poems
3. Walter Savage Landor

The Dial (1842)

1. The Senses and the Soul
2. Transcendentalism
3. Prayers

The Dial (1843)

1. Literary Intelligence
2. Augustine's Confessions
3. Europe and European Books
4. The Bible in Spain
5. Paracelsus
6. Past and Present

Also

1. Lords Supper